Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-22
A NEW BILL.

A Mormon exchange gives to the
public the text of bill whose provisions
(for so says our Mormon exchange)
embodv the next national legislation on
the Mormon question. As indicated by
this bill the coming legislation will be
delightfully."- to the point, and will
thoroughly correct all the open and ap-
parent weaknesses of the measure
springing from the mental loins
of the patriarch from Vermont.
This bill has the great advan-
tage of Mormon origin. and its pro-
visions have added Weight from the fact
that they are outcroppings from the inner
sanity circle. The first section provides
<'that the Mormons stand condemned
for having accumulated so little property
to confscate." The words "Mormons
stand condemned" in this section will
meet the public approval, and their
"having so little property to confscate" is
also straight goods, the Mormon Church
and the elders thereof, having as is
notoriouslY known, "confscated" said
property as fast as the workers of the
Tabernacle accumulated it. The second
section provides "that from and after the
date hereof, no Mormon shall make any
Improvements or build any structure up
on real estate claimed by him, until his
plans have in detail been submitted by
him to the Loyal League, and approved"
This touches with all the closeness
of intimate knowledge and long expert
ence upon Mormon characteristics. "No
Mormon shall make any improvement
or build upon any real estate" are ex-
pressive words. Mormons are not given
to improvements generally, and real
estate in Utah is not advanced in Utah
by Mormon methods. In this second
section there is also a declaration made
"that Mormon architecture is not always
agreeable to worldly TASTE" This goes
without saying. The world has always had
very little use for Mormon architecture,
especially of the moral order. Another
provision of this excellent new bill is
"that in any community where a Loyal
League lawyer may establish an office,
that it shall not be lawful for Mormons
to submit any matter of dispute to eccle-
siastical or neighborhood arbitration,
but shall be compelled to employ such
Loyal League lawyer" Here the Nor
mon author of the bill strikes hard and
straight on the ecclesiastical evil, and the
corrupt domination of the priesthood
The law of the land is to be obeyed, and
Gentle lawyer is to point the way to
such obedience. Another section of this
bill reads 'that in any community where
Loyal League physician may now prac-
tice, or desire to practice, it shall not be
lawful for any Mormon to pray to God
for the healing of the sick" This pro-
vision is also we'll based, and is
evidently intended as death blow to
that idle and shiftless fanatic;sm which
petitions God, and then continues on
its marrowbones until He does the work.
Again we have a provision which reads
"that Mormons shall not be allowed to
testify in any civil suit at law, but that
they shall be allowed to testify in criminal
matters" Here again the bill, with
wise boldness, takes things as it finds
them, and utilizes the unfortunate Nor
mon leaning toward criminality. The
above gives the chief points of this new
bill. This points, as the reader will
readily see are apt, and imperatively
challenge national legislation. Their
Mormon author must be one that has
seen the error of his ways. In the intro
ductory words to the bill the author says:
'In full belief that the sentiments ex-
pressed herein will meet with Liberal
favor, the following sections are presented
in skeleton" Again is the writer apt.
The Liberal favor is met with, and the
word Skeleton" is especially pertinent
when applied to Mormonism.